You know the worst thing is freedom. Freedom of any kind is the worst for creativity. You know, Dali spent two months in jail in Spain, and these two months were the most enjoyable and happy in my life. Before my jail period, I was always nervous, anxious. I didn't know if I should make a drawing, or perhaps make a poem, or go to the movies or the theatre, or catch a girl, or play with the boys. The people put me in jail, and my life became divine. Tremendous!

You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life

Great wine requires a mad man to grow the vine, a wise man to watch over it, a lucid poet to make it, and a lover to drink it.

Everyone should eat hashish, but only once.

Geniuses must never die, the progress of mankind depends on us

The sole difference between myself and a madman is the fact that I am not mad.

And now the announcement of Watson and Crick about DNA. This is for me the real proof of the existence of God.